Word: bolsheviks
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...Jean Herbette, accompanied by Mme. Herbette and an embassy staff, left Paris for Moscow to take up his duties as first French Ambassador to Bolshevik Russia, successor to the last French Ambassador to Imperial Russia, M. Maurice Paléologue...
...Gare de l'Est, the Bolshevik Ambassador and his wife, M. and Mme. Leonid Krassin, bade the party bon voyage and bon chance...
...reported that the French Ambassador had been instructed by Premier Herriot to impress upon the Bolshevik Government the necessity of paying its Imperial debt to France. Hostile wags in Paris thought, if he persisted, il va revenir de suite du pays rouge...
...guard of honor and was conducted to the French Embassy to the strains of a military band playing the Toreador's March from Carmen. M. Herbette was amazed, expected the band to play the Marseillaise, but was told that foreign national anthems are forbidden in Russia. Bolshevik reporters called a few minutes later at the Embassy; to them the Ambassador said...
...banqueting hall, Bolshevik waiters, equipped with scarlet plush breeches and braided blue plush coats, dispensed their master's choice board with the grace of obsequious respect. To eat were...